January 2010
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• I usually open at my store because I live about a block away and I like working at 5am and my day ends just as everyone elses is beginning. So when my shift was supposed to start at 9am today (a full 3 hours after normal), I was a little upset, but didn’t say anything.
Yesterday, my asst manager asks me if my manager told me where to go tomorrow. I said no, quizzically. Apparently, I had...
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• Just because we work in a touristy Starbucks does not mean that we know where everything in the city is. Especially the things around us. Most people who work in the store come from uptown or Brooklyn. I’m the only one from the area in which I work, and I just moved there!
Starbucks is for coffee. Try our free wifi if you need information. :)
Although, I have to say that if I DO know where...
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• I hate when tourists hold out a handful of coins (shrapnel) and tell me to “take what I need”.
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• One Saturday morning we never got our delivery of pastries or milk so my supervisor went to the back to find a sign to post that said we were opening late.
By the time we were supposed to open, two guys were hanging outside. By 10 minutes after opening, they were banging on the door. I shook my head to tell them we weren’t open, but they kept banging. I went to the back to get my...
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• Some background info- when I open, I set up the bagel display in the pastry case with one of each bagel just to show what we have.
A girl comes in and orders an asiago bagel and then dials her cellphone.
Girl: (into phone) “They don’t have anymore asiago bagels. What else do you want? Nothing? Ok.”
Me: “We have more asiago bagels. Did you want two?”
Girl:...
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• I get to work at 5am. We don’t open until 5:30am. Sometimes, I’m the first one there, and not only do I have to wait in the cold, but I have to wait in the dark, in the cold… alone. And then, when a certain shift comes, he/she will want to finish his/her cigarette before unlocking the door.
Dude/dudette, it’s effing scary out there in the morning. Esp on a Saturday...
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• Mom Tourist: Tall gingerbread latte.
Daughter tourist: Tall nonfat gingerbread latte.
(They pause and smile)
Me: So that’s two tall gingerbread lattes?
Mom: (obviously pissed) No. Tall nonfat gingerbread latte.
Me: Oh. Two tall NONFAT gingerbread lattes.
Mom: (Getting angrier) No! Tall nonfat gingerbread latte and a tall mocha!
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• I’m not stupid, I’m new. Just because I work at Starbucks doesn’t mean I didn’t get a college education. And it certainly doesn’t mean you have to act like you’re better than me.
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• Don’t expect me to know how to make your drink if it’s not on the menu. There are no “cafe ole’s” on the Starbucks menu. Order a Misto.
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• I have a regular who comes in on weekends. He likes to chat with the baristas while they are making drinks during the rush. The other day, that was me. After he had exhausted conversation about cleaning his apt, getting laid off from his law firm and once working at a coffeeshop himself, he moved on to giving me lengthy descriptions of the most obscure movies I’ve never heard of. After that, he...
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Starbucks raised their prices today. Most people were cool about it. Here are the top three responses that made me want to buy a bottle at the end of my shift:
• (A woman orders a grande one teabag tea. Normally it’s two teabags. Now it’s one, better full-leaf bag). That’s not the right price. ( I explain our new prices and why they’ve gone up). Well, this is the last tea I’ll ever buy here!
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• customer: (to his friend about me) she knows my drink.
• Me: tall coffee?
• Customer: (obviously excited that I got it right) that’s right! Tall hot chocolate!
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• me: (calling a just made drink) tall hot chocolate!
• general tourist person taking their drink from the bar then sipping it: excuse me, this isn’t a cappuccino.
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